Feature changed by: Matthias Mailänder (Mailaender) Feature #314968, revision 6 Title: Windows support using NSIS and Nuget/Chocolatey Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Matthias Mailänder (mailaender) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Both projects bring package management to Windows * http://chocolatey.org (http://chocolatey.org) for end users * https://nuget.org (https://nuget.org) for developers It would be cool to have Open Build Service support for this. Use Case: - Matt wants to deploy his project OpenRA (http://www.open-ra.org) . - Currently OBS only supports 1/3 of the supported platforms. He already - has a custom build server that compiles a Setup.exe using NSIS + 1) Matt wants to deploy his project OpenRA (http://www.open-ra.org) . + Currently OBS only supports various Linux distributions, but the + majority of the gamers are still on Windows. He already has a custom + build server that compiles a Setup.exe using NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net) , but it won't create a repository and is - just a bunch of self-made bash scripts. + just a bunch of self-made bash scripts so most of the players are using + outdated versions and users request for an auto-update feature. + 2) The openSUSE project wants to create a Setup.exe so Windows users + can try out SUSE in a dual-boot setup without pain just the way they + are used to install software. For development and shipping the Open + Build Service should be used, but because of the lacking Windows + support several workarounds are neccessary like putting the Setup.exe + inside a CD image or RPM which adds a hurd for interested parties. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: While you can already cross-compile with OBS using Mingw32 or Mono, there is no way to spit out a Setup.exe yet. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314968